September Blessings Sample

For September 
My Blessings Basket 

Follow Rules

New Car Smell

Breakfast with friends at the farm

Internationals leaving- Blessed to be a part of their
 "Wildwood Summer"

Meditation friends  old/new

Time with mom and aunt

Dollar Store Finds

Sunset flag ceromony

Customers

Break time

The ability to pray for someone

Waiting on baby : the plan

I got the text on Sunday around noon.  My niece's water broke.
I have been saving sick time at the library for when this precious baby boy arrives.  I have a new car to ride up to Philly.  My plans are in place.  

After a few texts to co-workers to make sure they will be in for our Monday night crew because work frowns upon you not finding coverage on your Saturday (every 3rd week) or your night, my plans are in motion.

Pack a bag✓
Call daughter ✓✓
Do some last minute stuff at home ✓

Monday morning arrives and I have a text that she is around 3 Cm dilated.  I have some coffee and hop in the car.  I take the longer scenic way up to Philly.  I know my daughter won't be ready for to go there until around noon.  This will give my niece time to give birth, we can visit mom and baby and I can head back around dinner time.   This is a great plan. 

Get to Philly to pick up my daughter.  Receive a text that she is 7cm dilated.  I jokingly tell her that she is proceeding slower than I drive.  A standard family joke because I always take the long scenic ways.  A bit of deviation to my plan but this is exciting, a baby is coming.

Find hospital, find parking lot, trek through about 3 building because we found the wrong parking lot, get off elevator at wrong floor. This should give baby plenty of time to get born.  Ah yes, my plans are unraveling just a bit.

Wait, color, text, tv, gab with other families, clock ticks, father updates us, go grab something to eat...........the lullaby song plays.......oh shoot did we miss it!   What about my plan?

Text my mom, will have to stay, don't want to drive back to South Jersey in the dark, possible C-section soon.  My poor niece this was not her plan.

Other patient's visitors burst into waiting room, burst into waiting area, the baby they waited for didn't make it.  Stunned waiting room faces. Time froze for a few seconds.  This was not their plan.

Got word that C-section started, Go down to eat, make texts and calls.  Baby arrives. Big boy at 9.5 oz, mom, dad and baby doing well.  It's late. The day may not have went according to my plan but baby's plan and God's plan worked out well!

August Blessings

For the month of August 
A Sampling of the my entries in my blessings basket

Listening to inspiring poetry

Watching Parents with children with disabilities.  Taking note of the loving interactions.

The birthday card about counting blessings

New work opportunities

Dinner Theater fun  

Waterpark Lazy River- seeing a mother twirling ballerina style for her little child

Sleepover in sister-in-laws camper

Birthday wishes x's and o's

Being on a carousel with a newphew

Unexpected Weekend of company- Jersey shore life

Early Bd celebration at work

200,000  on  a truck

Watching father and son putting shed together

Health insurance- Getting the mammogram and blood work done

A call from a friend.  Loved her "report" from the hometown

Summer Garden Veggie gifts from other

Time with family at winery

July Blessings

For the month of July
A Sampling of the my entries in my blessings basket

Honoring life 
3oth Birthday of a Nephew and the death of his grandfather
The Circle Life and connections

Shiva Prayers

Last min decision to stop at a bbq

Working in a/c on a humid day

Scrabbled egg sandwich on toast dinner (yummy)

Mint Tea

Watching sappy movies

Coffee

Co-worker friends

Cousin time with adult cousins

Historical tours

Holding a four-week old baby

Stopping at a farm stand

Burgers & Facebook snooping with a friend

Reading poetry with a nephew in the audience

Visiting a library

Helping to decorate for a baby shower for a niece

Daughter craft time  in the late evening

Seeing adult children interact :)

Pool time at  campground

Pinochle games

June Blessings

June's Blessings

Clip on sunglasses

Midnight smore's with the family

Jumping ocean waves

Meditation cancelled= Dinner with friend

Hearing a grandma read in a sing song voice in the library

After midnight chat with daughter

Photo of fixer guys

Truck fixed

In-service season

Son excited about new business

Funnel cake

Spontaneous after work pizza with Rose, Becky, and Marissa all talking "girl talk" = Happy 2nd day of summer

A card from a friend in mail saying 

"Enjoy What the day brings"

Celebrating a retirement 

May Blessings

Quiet moments of insight

Opportunity to work at jobs that I like

Helpful co-workers offer to follow me home when car acts up

Chairs that come in pairs  (Mother's day gift-sort of)

Daughter catching brake problems before they fail

Son finds a baby bird

Listening to someone share memories of their deceases spouse and seeing them smile with the memories

Off on a rainy day

Bumping into a Stockton Alum on the boardwalk

Breakfast with my Susquehanna peeps

Dryer warranty

Catching a new DVD at the library

Sending cards

Unexpected schedule change- morning off for errands on a sunshiny day



Buying my mother the same book she bought for her mother (many years ago) on Mother's Day

My niece is having a baby boy- Loved the excitement of seeing her find out at the barbecue - surrounded by family  

Home Where He Belongs

Home Where He Belongs by Kathleen Moore

Grand pop sits on his leather easy chair bouncing bald headed three-month-old Adam over his knee.  The little boy clad in blue brings unspeakable joy into the hearts of the family. As they sit rocking and bouncing, I snap a photo.  The photo hangs on the wall long after Grand pop leaves this world. 

 This baby boy came into this world against all odds. Born at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, he weighed in around four pounds.  Arriving in February, long before his due date in April, he fought against odds for survival.

 In May, the little darling needed to be hospitalized for a hernia.  From what I heard the procedure would be a same day surgery event. It wasn't, it turned into an overnight hospital stay.   My worriment about bringing home a little infant who may require medical help on the weekend overwhelmed me.  Unable to get answers on the phone, I prayed and persisted.   Finally, Dr. S, a kindly pediatrician, who never met either the baby or me, made a call to the hospital on my behalf; he told me that all infants required an overnight stay after procedures.  He ensured me that medically, the baby was fine and that his office was open on the weekend morning for emergency appointments.

 The next day, I awoke full of anticipation.  My world would change.  The baby would be released and I could take him home and smother him with all the motherly love that I held inside of me.  We drove down around 10am but as hospital releases go, there were delays and we became nervous with anticipation.   Taking a drive and walking around a little park located on Allegheny Avenue, we awaited word that this little boy was ready to come join his family.    Sometime around the early afternoon, Aunt Tootsie and Nancy, his Guardian angels, came out with the baby wrapped in a blue blanket.

 The Sun shone brightly, or at least in my memory, it must have.   I experienced an overwhelming feeling of serenity that rushed into my heart while holding my son for the first time He was safe from hunger, safe from being left with a six-year-old to care for him, safe from the cries that gave him a hernia.  He laid safe and sound in his mother's arms -a child born of my heart, not of my womb.

 My years of crying, sitting infertility doctors' offices, avoiding baby showers, ended with the touch of his skin. Adam was brought home and welcomed as our child, the 2nd grandchild to my parents, oldest male grandchild, first nephew to my brothers and cousin to my niece.   On my husband's side, he eclipsed a long gap between grandchildren and came at a time when great-grandchildren were starting to arrive.

 As Grand pop hands me back my son, his eyes welled.  "Kassy" he said, "Never tell him, he is adopted."  I just smile and hug Grandpop.    Kathleen Moore